The 2nd Santorini Biennale is calling artists to study and explore causations and reasons why countries and people are guided very often to violent actions and how the arts can create mechanisms against them.
Running from July 5 2014 to October 5 2014, the theme ‘Peace Mechanisms’ aims to create a harmony between people, with the mutual understanding and the respect of differences. Peace and war have been the subject of debate for thousands of years in many countries, cultures and philosophies, and both of them have led to serious moral questions.
Political systems have always viewed peace as a state of balance and harmony between individuals and populations in which respect means acceptance of differences; in which conflicts are resolved through dialogue; in which people’s rights are respected and their voices are heard and everyone is at their highest point of serenity; bearing always in mind that systems usually consider warfare as an inevitable and integral aspect for the creation of human culture (which is also inevitable under certain socio-cultural or ecological circumstances!).
Categories for artists include: painting, architecture, industrial design, photography, sculpture, drawing, cinema, installation art, ceramic art, literature, poetry, and gastronomy.
The competition is open to all artists or groups of artists without any limit of age, sex, nationality or other qualifications.
For more information and to enter visit www.santorinibiennale.gr